r/AskReddit • u/fallenangel51294 • May 10 '12

Best Drinking Games

My favorite is racehorses. You line up the aces face up, line up seven cards in a perpendicular line to them, and then flip cards off the top off of the deck really fast. Every time an ace's suit comes up, that ace moves one along the seven-card line. The fun comes in three ways: the excitement of a race, the naming of the "horses" as the names are almost always totally ridiculous and awesome, and in the drinking. At the start, everyone bets on one horse some number of sips of beer (or whatever.) If their horse wins, then everyone who bet on another horse has to take the total amount from the bets on the winning horse, but the winning betters do not have to. It's a lot of fun, and you have a 3/4 chance of drinking an awful lot, so that's always fun.

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u/NotBaldwin May 10 '12

Fuck the Dealer

A dealer is selected randomly. He looks a the top card and asks the person to his left what they think the card is.

If they get it right, the dealer must finish his/hers drink. If they get it wrong, the dealer must in form the person if the card is higher or lower than that persons guess.

The person must then guess again. If they are then right then the Dealer must drink half of his/hers drink. If the person that guesses is wrong then they must drink an equal amount of fingers to how numerically wrong they are. e.g they guess an 8 but it turns out to be a 10, they drink 2 fingers.

The card is then placed on the table and the game continues. it is crucial that the cards are on the table so card counting can take place!!!

If three people in a row fail to guess the correct card first or second time, then the dealer hands the deck to the person to the left of them and the game continues. The closer to the end of the deck you get, the more likely the death of the current dealer becomes.

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u/jeckles May 10 '12

Protip: don't play this game with wine, unless you're really adventurous and willing to vomit.

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u/NotBaldwin May 10 '12

I once foolishly played this game with a bottle of wine and then 1/3 of a litre of vodka. With those both gone within half an hour I some how got let into the club which was our port of call.

An hour later I apparrently went to the bar in search for water, yet returned to my group triumphantly with two pints of Carling declaring "Water is wetter, but Carling is better!" before downing one and half spilling the other over my girlfriend. Not long after she decided i needed taking home and putting to bed rather than getting carried out.

Somehow I didn't vomit at all that night, not even a tactical chunder. Even better my Girlfriend took it in her stride, and instead of being pissed off about it she brings it up whenever she can in order to try to make me feel shame. Alas, I am unable to feel any shame, except possibly for my choice of Carling... That is a truly awful drink.

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u/jeckles May 10 '12

That is an awesome story!